Another Week Down

Well I've survived my third week of motherhood. I couldn't be happier to have such a wonderful daughter in my life now. I'm going to be working getting her and I on a schedule/routine this week. I see many moms do it and I don't see how they do but thats my goal for the week. Now onto the matter at hand. I went to TOPS thursday night and we had a nice meeting. Drumroll please I stepped on the scale and lost 3lbs for the last 2 weeks. I'm down to 216. So I'm hoping to reach my goal of 2oo by Christmas. I have my goals listed on the goal pages and will be getting my other pages updated this weekend hopefully as well. Hope everyone has a great Saturday. Going to put my girl in our stroller and go for a test drive and then enjoy the Arkansas Razorback games this evening hopefully.

New Season of Life

Hey everyone. I'm back from a 9 month vacation. I decided not to blog since this was indeed to track my weight loss while I was pregnant. I'm happy to say my baby girl arrived 3 weeks ahead of schedule on Aug. 16. She is an angel sent by God to me. I'm happy to say that at by two weeks after having her I'd lost the 17lbs I had gained with her. I can fit in a few of my prebaby clothes but because of my hips expanding most of my jeans, shorts and carpi's don't fit yet and they may never again. I'm now going to start focusing on losing another 19 lbs or so before Christmas. I would like to be at 200lbs at Christmas. I believe this to be a reasonable goal for me. I have several ways I plan on keeping myself accountable one being my blog, two my weight loss group TOPS, and three my mom and I are having a contest with each other. On my moms and I's contest whoever has the highest percentage of weight loss by the time we go Christmas shopping that person has to buy lunch.

My weight on Aug. 25 was 219. I did not attend my weight loss meeting last week but plan on attending this week.

I'll update my weight Thursday or Friday after weighting in.

Finally An Update

Its been a rough couple of months my weight loss hasn't been the best. But I have a good excuse for not losing now, I'm currently 12 weeks pregnant. Its funny before I know we had our first TOPS meeting of the year and we were talking about what we wanted for ourselves this year. I wrote in my journal that this would be my year. I just didn't know at the time I was already a couple weeks pregnant. I'm so excited and so scared at the same time, since they consider me a high risk pregnancy. I was so happy when I was able to hear the heartbeat when I went to the dr last Thursday. I go back in 4 weeks and we will do the first round of screening for birth defects. I'm having mixed emotions on this right now. Tomorrow I will do a weekly update on how things are going.

Now for the rough part, as of tomorrow my husband and I will no longer have a job. I know this is a blessing in disguise. We have some money saved and will be able to draw unemployment for a little while to till we can both find something.

Hot 100 Update Week 4 and Weekly Weigh In

I'm happy to report that I lost 3 of the 5lbs that I had gained last week. I have every indention to lose that last 2lbs this week at least.

Now onto my weekly Hot 100 Challenge Update

1. Track my food intake. I'm doing better on this, but have lots of room for improvement. I believe if I become more diligent with it, the scales will reflect my effort. Did not track at all this week, must start.
2. Do the 10k Spa Pace Race in November. I want to do a Run/Combo. I will decide on my run/walk minute combo as time draws closer. I did the race last year and walked the majority of it well I want to improve this year. My finish time I'm not so worried about I want to know I gave it everything I had when I cross over that finish line. ( Ran 3 days like I planned to this week) Thinking I may actually do the 5K instead of the 10k, my ankle been bothering me.

3. Exercise at least 6 days a week. So that means I need to add strength training in and that will help with my running and help me lose some weight. Failed. Need to get on track with this.

Hot 100 Update and Weekly Weigh In 2 and 3

ere are My Goals for the Hot 100 Challenge

1. Track my food intake. I'm doing better on this, but have lots of room for improvement. I believe if I become more diligent with it, the scales will reflect my effort. ( Tracked a couple day but not all, will try harder this week)

2. Do the 10k Spa Pace Race in November. I want to do a Run/Combo. I will decide on my run/walk minute combo as time draws closer. I did the race last year and walked the majority of it well I want to improve this year. My finish time I'm not so worried about I want to know I gave it everything I had when I cross over that finish line. ( Ran 3 days like I planned to this week) Thinking I may actually do the 5K instead of the 10k, my ankle been bothering me.

3. Exercise at least 6 days a week. So that means I need to add strength training in and that will help with my running and help me lose some weight. (Did not do this at all this week. But I will this week.)

My weigh for 10/7 had me up .5lb I wasn't to worried since it was that time of the month but this week weigh in on 10/14 was was floored when I seen my weight I was up 5lbs in one week. Not well sure how, I have some ideas and I'll be tweaking somethings this week and making some changes. So right now my mind is not in the best place.

Hope everyone is doing well on their journey.

Hot 100 Update and Weekly Weigh In

Here are My Goals for the Hot 100 Challenge

1. Track my food intake. I'm doing better on this, but have lots of room for improvement. I believe if I become more diligent with it, the scales will reflect my effort. ( Tracked a couple day but not all, will try harder this week)

2. Do the 10k Spa Pace Race in November. I want to do a Run/Combo. I will decide on my run/walk minute combo as time draws closer. I did the race last year and walked the majority of it well I want to improve this year. My finish time I'm not so worried about I want to know I gave it everything I had when I cross over that finish line. ( Ran 3 days like I planned to this week)

3. Exercise at least 6 days a week. So that means I need to add strength training in and that will help with my running and help me lose some weight. (Did not do this at all this week. But I will this week.)

Weekly Weigh In

I weight in last night and I was down 1.5lb for the week. That makes 7lbs for the month of September. This month was a first for me I've lost 5 weeks in a row and I'm happy now I'm trying for six.

I going to make my exercise plan up this weekend and my menu for the week. I hope to get up in the morning and a run in.

This Journey Is Not Always Easy

My journey to losing weight and becoming a healthier and happier person will not always be easy. Over the weekend I struggled. I had plans to exercise but did I? No, why because I was tired and not feeling well and was emotional drained. Is that a good reason no, if I would have done something I would have probably felt a little better. My eating was not the best in the world either. Then yesterday I know my running clinic was meeting, and I almost talked myself out of going, but my desire to lose weight overcame my desire to sit at home. So I went and I struggled through it we ran 3/walk 2, the first 3 sets I did okay, then I ended up walking more than running, but thats okay. Then I stopped by the grocery store on the way home and done a quick stock up for the week. I almost got my a donut and then I thought I could stop at Sonic and get my some fried cheese stick but I managed to talk myself out of both bad things. I was happy with myself. I'm hoping my mind and heart are getting on the same page now with this weight loss journey and this decision will becoming easier in time.

I'll be posting my weekly Hot 100 challenge updates on Thursday night or Friday morning. Hope everyone has a great day.